Uwharrie Charter Academy’s volleyball team has had plenty to celebrate across the first couple of weeks of the season. The Eagles have already reached the 10-win mark with a bunch of non-conference matches. (PJ Ward-Brown / Randolph Record)
Uwharrie Charter Academy has won nine of its first 10 volleyball matches of the season.
The Eagles added three more triumphs last week with home sweeps of Phoenix Academy and Union Pines and a road conquest of Richmond County.
UCA defeated Richmond County 25-19, 25-13, 25-19 as Emory Johnson posted 23 assists and Caroline Way provided nine kills and nine aces.
** Asheboro’s 25-6, 25-21, 25-18 sweep of visiting Eastern Randolph included 14 service points and five kills from Emma Ingold.
** Trinity had road victories against Southern Guilford in a sweep and against Southeast Guilford in four sets.
Trinity’s Avalynn Johnson totaled 69 assists for those two matches. Karrington Batten’s 15 kills and six aces and Kaitlyn McCoy’s 19 kills and four aces paced the Bulldogs vs. Southeast Guilford.
** Kailey Brown’s 18 assists and Lara Wiseman’s seven kills came in Providence Grove’s 25-18, 25-13, 25-13 sweep of visiting East Davidson.
Boys’ soccer
Cam Letterlough tallied three goals and Ozmar Martinez had the other in Asheboro’s 4-3 victory against visiting Western Alamance. Win Smith had two assists.
** Southwestern Randolph’s 4-1 victory against visiting Jordan-Matthews came with two goals apiece from Fernando Hernandez and Aaron Avina.
The Cougars won 2-1 at Bishop McGuinness with goals from Braydon Tyl and Avina. That pushed Southwestern Randolph’s record to 3-0.
** Wheatmore avenged an opening-game loss to East Davidson by picking up a 3-1 road victory with goals from Carter Queen, Sawyer St. Clair and Jaylen Aquillina.
